Our thoughts on the United Nations “Sustainable” Development Goals (UNSDGs) – and how we contribute

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Our thoughts on the United Nations “Sustainable” Development Goals (UNSDGs) – and how we contribute

  Although we view the United Nations as an institution rather critically for their failure to address underlying causes, overly careful language regarding Climate Breakdown (and concomitantly severe disruptions to

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Article: Silicon Valley comes for our data – All of it!

Social media and digital technology in general is turning our society into dystopia. Companies like amazon demand ever more data, and they are already moving out of the digital sphere

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Article: How to Decolonize the Permaculture Movement

Some good and important (and one misleading) point about permaculture as a movement. The author criticizes that permaculture is sometimes misused as a business (for those $2,000 permaculture courses) and

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Infographic: A Truish and Actual History of the World

A great and informative little graphic visualizing the history of modern humans (not the whole world) and the series of ever more complex and profound errors and mistakes we call

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Interview: Pirate Bay Founder says he has ‘Given Up’

Interesting approach to our society’s problems and pessimistic outlook on the future by Peter Sunde. Even though he fails to see the underlying problem that causes all those problems –

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Article: Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth

This excellent article sums up our thoughts on megalomaniac delusions of colonizing other planets (as if colonization didn’t do enough damage, devastated enough ecosystems and destroyed enough diversity in the

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Article: We can’t vertically farm our way into a techno-utopia

We view hydro/aeroponics and vertical farms very skeptically. It is the most unnatural way to grow food, and it is probably the highest form of domestication of plants, depriving them

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Article: Resist the Internet

And yet another column that reminds us to use technology wisely and seldom, if at all. As the negative effects of smartphones, the internet and especially “social” media slowly unfold,

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Essay: Dark Ecology

One of the greatest essays I have read recently – so great, in fact, that I read it several times. Paul Kingsnorth makes good case against technology and the cult

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Quote: The Machine

The machine appeared In the distance, singing to itself Of money. Its song was the web They were caught in, men and women Together. The villages were as flies To

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